Down to 54 Players
Level 16
: 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Another trio of players ran out of chips to reduce the field to the last 54 and Mariusz Niski avoided the elimination just shy of the money after doubling through Nicolae Suciu.
Suciu had limped the button and Niski jammed for 53,000 in the small blind, Suciu called and tabled 
. Niski had the far superior pocket pair in 
and had little to fear on the 
board.
The same table also feature Traian Bostan, who more than doubled as of lately, and Dara O'Kearney is right in his comfort zone of ten big blinds one table over.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000 | 110,000 |
|
160,000 | -70,000 |
|
110,000 | 80,600 |
|
50,000 | 5,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
turn and the 
river were blanks and Ponomarev had to forfeit a big portion of his stack.
board to bow out before the money.
against the 
of Toni Judet and the board came 
river. Ropert in the small blind jammed for 93,000 and Dobrescu was having a hard time, he sighed almost instantly.
